On a Conversation between Socrates and Meno in the Dialogue Meno
This short text discusses Part II of Plato’s dialogue Meno, in which Socrates asks the boy to construct a square twice the area of a given square. Socrates presupposes that the boy already knows what a square looks like (“what it is” in everyday language), knows (accepts) that the four sides of the...
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The University of Akureyri
2020-03-01
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Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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Online Access: | https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-15-no-1-2020/other-contribution-volume-15-no-1-2020/on-a-conversation-between-socrates-and-meno-in-the-dialogue-meno/ |